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After nearly a year of logistical planning and course designing, the organizers of Primal Quest have received all the necessary greenlights to move forward with their 2008 marquis event – Primal Quest Montana. Scheduled to run (literally) from June 23rd - July 2nd, Primal Quest Montana anticipates that more than 60, four-person, coed teams will converge on Bozeman and Big Sky, Montana to compete in this granddaddy of all adventure races.
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One of the country's largest and most prestigious celebrations of the arts, the National Folk Festival, is coming to Butte, Montana for a three-year tenure beginning in July 2008. First presented in 1934, it is the oldest multicultural festival in the nation. This "moveable feast of deeply traditional folk arts" celebrates American culture through music, dance, traditional craft, storytelling, food and more.
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Northwestern Montana is home to more than just grizzly bears and Whitefish Mountain Resort’s mystical snow-ghost trees. As springtime temperatures begin to rise, the powder-coated mountains begin to melt, trickling downward into the vast creek and river drainages of Glacier Country.
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Travelers seeking culturally authentic experiences and visually stunning, unspoiled places have a valuable new resource in a "Geotourism MapGuide" for the Rocky Mountain region surrounding Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
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The Montana Dinosaur Trail is a meaty story waiting to be told. This newly expanded, multimedia-friendly trail system connects 15 paleo-rich venues from eastern Montana to the Rocky Mountain Front near Glacier National Park.
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Though Montana is more known for its furry, four-legged mega fauna, birders have begun flocking to Big Sky Country to experience the state’s recently inaugurated birding trails. The Bitterroot Birding Trail, perched on the western flank of the state, and the Northeastern Plains Birding Trail offer birders prime new venues to spot mountain chickadees, yellow warblers and numerous other species.
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Montana’s rich mining history left the state’s mountainous landscape peppered with an array of abandoned “ghost towns”. They aren’t, however, quite as quiet as you might imagine.
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Here at the 45th parallel, as the mercury starts its seasonal descent, you can count on Montanans to turn up the burner on their sense of humor. Autumn in the Big Sky state is marked by quirky events that will hopefully appeal to your journalistic penchant for offbeat angles.
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Five Reasons to Pack Your Fly Rod WITH Your Ski Boots
1. Because streamers aren't just for 5-year-old's birthday parties.
2. You're more likely to see an elk or moose than another angler.
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There are few places on the planet where ideal temperature water bubbles up from underground springs and beckons us to soak our bones as it does here in the treasure state.
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These days the cost of skiing and snowboarding simply exceeds the financial threshold of many working-class folks. One of the biggest cost hurdles is the price of a lift ticket, that requisite paper rectangle dangling from one’s parka, giving access to the chairlifts and gondolas that whisk snowriders up mountains.
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Montana – Where the Good Ol’ Days Are Now. Life is too short to stand in long lift lines. With 16 ski and snowboard areas scattered across our spacious state, visitors are treated to gobs of powder and uncrowded slopes.
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